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Preschool Shut After 3-Year-Old With A Dairy Allergy Dies

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 11/13/17

A Harlem preschool was shut down after a three-year-old boy with a dairy allergy died when he was served a grilled cheese sandwich there.

Elijah Silvera was fed the sandwich at Seventh Avenue Center for Family Services despite the fact that the school was informed that he had a severe dairy allergy, according to the boy’s family. He was taken to Harlem Hospital Nov. 3 after he went into anaphylactic shock, where he died.

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